Comment on Article-Level Metrics: An Ill-Conceived and Meretricious Idea by...
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You have signed your name as “Ron Davis.” What is your real name? Why are you afraid to use your real name?
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If you are receiving invitations to submit papers to Elsevier, than that is spam. What is your name? Do you have any association with one of the publishers on my list?
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Ramesh
Some journals/publishers you’ve listed such as the American Journal of Applied Sciences published by Science Publications appears as a SCOPUS Indexed journal. Aren’t SCOPUS indexed journals supposed to...
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Jeffrey Beall
Supposed to be, yes. But things are never as they appear …
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I think that image is of Jason Priem…of AltMetrics fame? i.e. impactstory.org . I don’t believe that Jason (and his colleague Heather) are pushing article level metrics….rather the fact that scientists...
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the more I read your material, the more disgusted i become. it is time to throw this back in the face of the OA advocates: don’t tell me why we MUST give our work away for free and why we MUST stop...
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Yes indeed, that is spam. Beall is correct. It has nothing to do with being a big publisher or not. I think Jeffrey Beall has clearly spelt out the objective of his blog from the onset: ‘critical...
View ArticleComment on All About Scigmoid Publications by Robert
I agree with Thomas E. I would say the journal is suspicious but would hesitate to classify them as predatory. In their favor they aren’t publishing hundreds of titles, their website is reasonably well...
View ArticleComment on Appeals by Mihai
Dear Dr. Beall, why Romanian Biotechnological Letters is on your fake journal list? Mihai
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Thanks, Michael. These are excellent points. I hope that whatever system emerges it is able to handle data manipulation well.
View ArticleComment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
This journal uses deceit. It claims to have an impact factor when it really doesn’t. Also, The journal says it’s published by a bogus foundation and headquartered in New York: Foundation of Computer...
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Dear Jeffrey, Your answer shows your immaturity. It is not that anyone who are not supports you are having association with your publisher list. He may be a researcher/academician. People are educated...
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Benestad has written a comment (in PRP) on the earlier Scafetta PRP article (S13). Benestad is scathing of S13 and some quotes are: “This conclusion is in error because it is based on a...
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Dear Dr. Beall, What do you say about the journal “journal of ethnobiology and traditional medicine”. http://www.ethnobiomed.com/. Is it not a predatory journal? They ask for a very hefty publication...
View ArticleComment on All About Scigmoid Publications by L. S.
I would not call this well written: “Striving to revolutionize the publishing sector, Scigmoid Company is established to achieve a status of a trusted organization in publishing scientific, technical...
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Ron Davis is of course not his/her name, and he/she won’t have the courage to reply. ;-)
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You have very strong views. But why the anonymous post? ;-)
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“If you go to medical school, you get access to journals.” The problem is that in developing countries, this is often not the case.
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